The New Core Allocation: Long/Short Equity

With equity valuations at elevated levels, subdued economic growth due to changing demographics and stubbornly low productivity gains, as well as a bleak outlook for fixed income, advisors are challenged to rethink foundational portfolio elements of investor portfolios—which means seeking out strategies that bolster the core going forward.

Bounded Rationality: Tapping Investor Behavior to Source Alpha

Counter-Trend Trading

A Systematic Method for Harvesting Short-Term Market Noise

The managed futures corner of the alternative investment space is one of the first places astute investors turn when they are seeking diversification from traditional asset classes. Traditionally, managed futures strategies have been associated with commodity trading advisors using trend following systems to trade a broad range of futures markets.

An Environmental Study: Counter-Trend Trading

Observed behavior of counter-trend models in different types of markets.

Counter-trend models offer a systematic method to take advantage of back-and-forth price swings (“noise”) in financial markets in order to capture returns with little or no correlation to traditional markets.